Thank you for making the very useful river levels widget. As an avid whitewater kayaker this is very helpful in determining the optimum time to go kayaking.

Since certain waves, hydraulics and other river features get good at certain optimum levels I was thinking it would be cool to make a graphic background that is color-coded for each river indicating when certain play spots are “in” and at good levels. I can create the graphic. Would it be possible to integrate that in to my own widget (or for other kayakers to have as well) or is that too difficult or not possible?

Imagine an iPhone app that calls you when a certain wave is really good? Crazy huh?

Just curious.

Thanks.

Chad

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Use and love the the River Level Widget. Wondered if you ever considered converting it into an iPhone/iPod App? Did a little bit of research and found that there is a bit of cut-and-paste “example code” that launches a UIWebView object, which will then allow you to run a JavaScript inside. Could potentially be a fairly simple port, with a lot of re-use of the River Level Widget’s Java.

Ref:
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=774270
http://developer.apple.com/iphone/library/documentation/UIKit/Reference/UIWebView_Class/Reference/Reference.html

Keep up the good work!

http://waterdata.usgs.gov/ny/nwis/current?index_pmcode_STATION_NM=1&index_pmcode_DATETIME=2&index_pmcode_00065=3&index_pmcode_00060=4&column_name=station_nm&column_name=site_no&sort_key=station_nm&sort_key_2=station_nm&format=sitefile_output&sitefile_output_format=xml&rdb_compression=file&list_of_search_criteria=realtime_parameter_selection

The same page in HTML format instead of XML:

http://waterdata.usgs.gov/ny/nwis/current?index_pmcode_STATION_NM=1&index_pmcode_DATETIME=2&index_pmcode_00065=3&index_pmcode_00060=4&column_name=station_nm&column_name=site_no&sort_key=station_nm&sort_key_2=station_nm&rdb_compression=file&list_of_search_criteria=realtime_parameter_selection

These are urls are built from the real-time water data search form. If the station doesn’t show up there, then it won’t appear in the list.

The graphs displayed in the widget are pulled directly from the USGS site and not generated in the widget. Therefore, the station page will need to have graphs on it for which I can get the URL. If you give me a url to the station page I might be able to figure out why it isn’t showing up in the list and if it will be possible to add support for it and similar stations.

Great widget. Is there any way to add USGS stations? I’d like to have the South Platte above Lake George (PLAGECO).

Thanks for the River Levels widget. Being both a mac addict and the son of a fly fishing shop proprietor (http://forwardcast.net), I quickly saw how useful this could be for the shop. However, I thought that your widget could be extended to mobile devices too (e.g. iPhone). Therefore, I’m currently working on Ruby on Rails implementation of your widget only less graphical and more text based. Although, now that the iPhone SDK is available, your widget might make a good iPhone/iPod Touch application too.

Chase